Robert Downey, Jr. is looking forward to playing characters who aren't Iron Man

Because then, he won't have to suffer through photo-ops gone bad like this one.

Iron Man 3 was a film about a man who began to identify so completely with his creation that he used it as an avatar during physical affection with his girlfriend, asking her to smooch the armored faceplate while he operated it from his basement lab. But hey! There was a little kid! Clearly an all-ages flick!